BC wildfires present challenges for U.S. and allied military pilots on exercise

I recently returned from Washington State which is seeing first hand some of the effects from the wildfires now raging in British Columbia. The skies are hazy and the smoke from the fires gives the appearance of almost like smog. “This phenomenon is caused by smoke from wildfires in Alaska as well as northern and central Canada,” according to the National Weather Service website. “The smoke from these fires rises high into the atmosphere and is driven south across the Upper Mid